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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1905
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905
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General Sanitary Administration.
The following table gives a summary of the work of the
sanitary inspectors, so far as the work admits of tabulation.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1905.
| Total Sanitary Operations | 82,637 | Dust receptacles provided | 564 |
| Number of house inspections | 45,810 | Leaky house-roofs and gutters repaired | 531 |
| Bakehouse inspections | 278 | ||
| Bakehouse nuisances abated | 73 | Houses supplied with water, and fittings repaired | 248 |
| Urinals—inspections | 340 | ||
| Do. altered, repaired, or water laid on | 86 | Water closets supplied with water or supply disconnected from | |
| Intimations served under Sec. 3 | 5767 | drinking water cisterns | 664 |
| Notices served under Sec. 4 | 1694 | Cisterns covered, cleansed and repaired | 637 |
| Notices served under Sec. 62 & 65 | 2653 | ||
| Complaints received & attended to | 3249 | Keeping of animals in unfit state discontinued | 108 |
| Number of houses disinfected | 2589 | ||
| Houses supplied with disinfectants | 5844 | Smoke observations | |
| House drains flushed with disinfectants after infectious disease | 2581 | Certificates of disinfection granted | 2152 |
| Houses inspected and certificates granted (Sec. 48) | 235 | ||
| Overcrowding abated | 56 | Proceedings Ordered by Council and Health Committee | 4,462 |
| Premises cleansed and repaired | 1459 | ||
| Drains tested By smoke | 1137 | Summonses issued | 180 |
| ,, water | 5987 | Magisterial Orders obtained and enforced | 93 |
| Drains cleansed and repaired | 413 | ||
| Drains relaid | 620 | Factories, Workshops,&c., inspections Sanitary conveniences provided or improvements effected in | 3194 |
| Frontage drains constructed or re-constructed | |||
| Soil-pipes and drains ventilated | 458 | ||
| Sink and rain water pipes disconnected or repaired | 413 | Factories & Workshops (Sec. 38) | 394 |
| Water Closets cleansed & repairer | 847 | Underground sleeping rooms disused | 7 |
| Cesspools abolished | 8 | ||
| Mews & Stables drained & paved | 25 | Gipsy van inspections Drains laid to new houses and | 269 |
| Yards and forecourts paved | 1302 | ||
| Accumulations of manure and other obnoxious matter removed or proper receptacles provided | 144 | tenements | 235 |
| Samples taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts | 700 | ||
| Other Sanitary operations | 612 |
House-to-house Inspection.
The following table gives particulars as to the number of
houses inspected in house-to-house inspection during the
year:—